Chile - New grounds for concern after court refuses to protect TV station director

Reporters without borders

A court in Coyhaique, the capital of the Patagonian region of Aysén, yesterday unanimously rejected a petition by a senator and a human rights lawyer to protect Canal 40 TV Aysén director Samuel Chong Rivera (photo) from police attempts to get him to surrender video of recent protests in the Aysén region. The petition was filed on 29 March after members of the Criminal Investigation Police (PDI) went to Chong's home and asked him to hand over the video he filmed during the protests. Chong had (...)

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